By Christine Sams

August 17, 2016 — 9.15pm

It's a far cry from the romantic impression created by sweeping gowns, extravagant dates and a hunky bloke. Former contestant Megan Marx describes appearing on The Bachelor Australia as "super, super weird".

"If anyone told you it's not weird to be in that situation, they've got to be lying," Marx said on the phone from hometown Geraldton. "I'm not a very dramatic, competitive type of person, I just sort of go with the flow and in that environment it was quite difficult.

"I think more than anything my feelings for Richie couldn't develop, it was all too distracting and all too much, I couldn't do it."

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Megan Marx refuses a rose from Richie Strahan on Wednesday night's The Bachelor.Credit:Ten

In a high-octane episode where three new competitors turned up as "intruders", before another verbal cat fight between two existing competitors, Marx's decision to leave the show added a further twist of drama.

The creators of the Ten series had earlier decided to add a bit of horsepower to the show's competitive "mix". While the initial group of female contestants waited at a garden party, expecting the Bachelor to turn up, 31-year-old Strahan was instead introduced to three new women.

One turned up on a quad bike, the next on a motorbike and the final one on a horse.

It only took two legs – and her brain – for Marx to make her exit.

The intruders on The Bachelor.Credit:Ten

"Watching it is very different to having experienced it in the flesh," she said. "I think to fall in love with somebody you have to genuinely know them inside and out and, you know, I'm not suggesting other girls on the show couldn't do that – I'm sure some of them could – but for me, I wasn't thinking about Richie, I was thinking 'oh my gosh, all this drama'."

Marx admits, though, she has already felt the impact of appearing on television after being stopped for photographs by fans in Perth.

Megan was considered a frontrunner for Richie's heart earlier on in the show.Credit:Ten

She said she doesn't regret appearing on the show. "I was obviously very excited," she said. "You know what, I'm glad that I did it. I think you've got to try things to know how you are going to feel about them."